Why is PARTYNEXTDOOR called PARTYNEXTDOOR?

Jahron Anthony Brathwaite, known professionally as PartyNextDoor, is a Canadian singer and record producer. PartyNextDoor was the first artist signed to Drake’s OVO Sound record label in 2013, in a joint venture with Warner Records. He then released his first EP self-titled PartyNextDoor later that year.

Why is PARTYNEXTDOOR called PARTYNEXTDOOR?

Cause this is the only music I’m going to make. I created my own world, and you’re gonna have a hard time shopping this.” He took the name PARTYNEXTDOOR from a production filter in the Fruity Loops program, one he thought sounded closest to whichever one 40 used.

In early 2013, PARTYNEXTDOOR’s music found its way to OVO. “I’m eternally interested and curious and looking for that new hit, to feel something that I’ve never felt,” says the label’s co-founder Oliver El-Khatib, over the phone from Toronto.

He first received Party’s music from frequent Drake producer Boi-1da, who sent some songs over from an email address El-Khatib didn’t recognize at first. “I’ll just listen to anything,” El-Khatib says. “I give my email address to anybody. I was getting these emails from a random address, and I started listening, and it was crazy.